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Dec. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 18, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Oh, yeah, I gotta do this.
This is probably three weeks ago now.
Three weeks to a month ago.
We, we extended an offer involving the book, uh Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
We asked people to submit essays.
Short, really, not essays.
A few characters, a few few lines, why your school should be the school that we would gift a couple of copies of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and lots of other books, great American classics.
And we said just in fact, the entries were so long, people were spending using so many words, I mean, 500, 750 words, which is an average newspaper column explaining why their school should qualify.
Remember, I had to say, look, you need to dial it back.
You know, no more than 250 words or something.
That's max.
That's all we need.
Anyway, here's the bottom line.
We were deluged as we knew we would be.
And it's just impossible to pick one.
And I can't, there have been I don't want to give out the number, but it is a huge number of entries from people making the case why their school should be awarded this donation from us to F by T. So what we've decided to do,
and I just wanted to announce it, we're just going to send Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and a lot of other great American classics to everybody who entered on the Rush Revere page.
We are consumed with the Christmas spirit.
There is a mission behind Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrim.
This is not just a commercial exercise.
It's not, it's not just, hey Rush, you need to write another book.
Okay, I'll sit down and write another book.
It's not, it's not there's an actual mission behind Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, and that is to teach the truth of America to young people who are not being taught the truth of this country everywhere.
And it's yeah, it's my version of uh giving something back with that phrase people use, or uh doing something, and what can I do besides what I do?
We've just decided to everybody that sent in it.
It's too hard to pick one.
They're all good.
They they have all successfully tugged at our heart springs.
Heart strings.
So all of you who entered, you will all, every school that you called or wrote about and and and uh touted to us.
Every one of you is going to get Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and other great American classics for the screw library.
We're we're just gonna donate these.
And I wanted to make that announcement now because we just decided this last night.
It's it's just every one of them makes a plea, an impassioned plea, why their school is deserving, and it's impossible to pick just one.
So we're just gonna take the easy route, and we're just gonna say that everybody won.
So if you submitted an entry, your school is going to get the donation.
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, some copies to the Screw Library, and other Great American classics.
Okay.
Back to The Pope.
You'll note that I didn't spend any time in the first hour on this.
I am not striving to keep this alive.
I'm not striving to make this about me.
But the drive-bys won't let it go.
They can't turn this loose.
The latest Piers Morgan on CNN last night on Piers Morgan Live.
He had the noted author and well-known conservative raconteur Ann Coulter.
And during his conversation with Coulter, he wanted to bring up me and Il Papa, Pope Francis, and to set it up, this is what he said.
Rush Limbaugh keeps whacking away at Pope Francis, which is, you know, it's like watching the devil incarnate taking your mother to reza.
But tell me why the right seem to have some big issue with a man who appears to be non-bigoted, incredibly humble, a false for good, somebody perhaps revolutionizing an anachronistic church, dragging them kicking and screaming into the real world.
Why would this enrage the likes of Rush Limbaugh?
Okay, that's that's the question.
The devil incarnate.
I am the devil incarnate.
The Pope is uh Mother Teresa.
And you'll note, folks, can I can I look at?
I don't want to be subtle about this.
It's Christmas time.
Can I take a little credit for something here?
Well, you think you know what I'm gonna say?
Here is an avowed leftist who every other day of the week despises the Catholic Church.
Piers Morgan.
And he's no different than anybody else out there on the left.
Every other day of the week they hate the Catholic Church.
They don't like the Pope because of abortion, because of gays, because gay marriage, because of no women priests, because of AIDS, you name it.
They do not like the Catholic Church at all, except now.
Since I, the devil incarnate, have entered the fray.
These people that hate the Catholic Church are now its biggest advocates.
Is that not amazing?
Is that not a wonder to behold?
I think I don't care he calls me the devil incarnate.
Here he's he's speaking out positively of Christianity now.
He doesn't know it.
He thinks the Pope is modernizing the church in the way the left thinks it should be.
See, the to the left, a religion is nothing but a malleable, bendable, shapeable, flakable, formable thing.
And it it like everything else, it ought to accommodate whatever the will of the people is at that moment.
So if the people are for abortion, the church ought to be, because the church ought to relate to people.
And total lack of understanding of what a religion is or what a church is.
For him to call the church anachronistic shows he has no understanding of religion whatsoever.
The church, Catholic Church, whatever church is what it is.
And if you don't like it, it's your role to get out, not change it.
Christianity is Christianity.
The various denominations are what they are.
If you don't like it, you move on.
It's not up to the church to modernize.
It's not up to the church to be dragged kicking and screaming into the real world.
Yet that's what he thinks Pope Francis is doing.
And it's not what Pope Francis is doing.
Pope Francis is as rock-rigid anti-abortion as any Pope ever has been.
Sending on gay marriage, female priests, and all of this.
But I still think, folks, that is a wondrous thing that because of little old me, the devil incarnate, leftists who would otherwise and do otherwise revile the Catholic Church are now singing its praises.
It is a beautiful thing.
But that whole soundbite is proof that Piers Morgan, incompetent incarnate hasn't the slightest idea.
Slightest understanding of religion.
Religion is timeless.
Anachronistic, he says.
Anyway, here is well known conservative author and media raconteur Ann Colter's answer to Piers Morgan.
In Rush Limbaugh's case, we of course think he is the Pope, so I could see why he'd be angry at it.
The statement by the Pope that I find most surprising was his statement that you don't have to be a Christian to go to heaven.
Look, you may think that.
Maybe there are a lot of people who think that, but if you're head of the RNC, you're not supposed to be saying, oh, don't bother voting Republican.
That isn't supposed to be your position.
I didn't even want to.
I I've I studiously stayed away from Pope Francis saying that you don't have to be a Christian to go to heaven.
I didn't even want to touch that, but she has a point.
That's that's kind of enough.
I'm not I'm not even gonna go there.
That's because I didn't want to touch on the religion.
The Pope ventured into the world of economics, and he did so as the mouthpiece of the the genuinely uninformed left.
That's what I responded to.
Listen how Piers Morgan responded to uh what Ann Coulter just said.
Or it could just be that he believes in open church, open Christianity, all inclusive.
They'll take anybody, unlike you, Lord.
It was so dogmatic that you have to be in a right of Genghis Khan to even be acceptable.
Okay, but if you're the head of the Catholic Church and your position is, ah, join any church.
In fact, you don't even have to be a Christian.
Maybe you you know you could get a show on CNN, but maybe you shouldn't be the head of the Catholic Church.
Well, she's she she's right, and Piers Morgan has a he the Pope isn't doing any of what Piers Morgan's assigning to him.
This is what is laughable.
The Pope is not modernizing the church.
He's he's he's not he's not dragging the church kicking and screaming into the real world.
Any of that.
This is what the leftists think religion ought to do, like everybody else, it ought to bow down to them.
Whatever the left wants, every institution should do it.
And the ones that stand up in strident opposition to that tug and that pull of the left are the ones who are hated and reviled.
And that's why the Catholic Church has been hated and reviled, because they have not been movable, they haven't been draggable, they haven't been kickable, and they haven't been screaming as they've been dragged into the modern real world as defined by Piers Morgan.
Well, could it be that the Pope just believes in an open church, open Christianity?
No, Piers, he doesn't believe in that.
He's a case, the Pope for crying out loud.
But this is projection, and this is nevertheless.
Um folks, it's a it's this beautiful, wondrous thing that people who any other day of the week despise this institution are now speaking up for it and defending it.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back and continue.
We have a gay community update coming up, speaking of, sit tight, don't go away.
Hi, we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
And to the phones we go, Jane in San Jose, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ, how exciting to talk to you.
Well, I'm glad you got through.
Wow.
Hey, listen, I wanted to follow up on the study that you were discussing this morning.
I thought it was uh great psychological savvy that you applied that to the parties.
I think it's absolutely true.
But I'm a psychologist, and I think it is a male-female thing.
Let me tell you how.
Okay.
I mean, fire away.
Okay.
So men and women both need love and both need respect, but men are fed from respect.
They're forced and they're they're fed by it.
And they feel better about themselves when they're respected.
And women primarily feel better about themselves when they feel loved.
And so if you had reversed that study and had that um woman being respectful of that man for twelve days, I think their marriage would have gotten better.
Well now, wait wait a second.
If y if you had reversed the study and the woman being respectful of the man the point that that's what they were trying to do.
He sh was supposed to respect him more, love him more, like him more, as he became less confrontational and more agreeable.
No, because she he was he was being respectfully quote respect to her, but he was being chronically deferential.
And I've never seen a witchy woman get nicer from a guy being deferential like that.
They don't do it.
The opposite happens.
But if he had if she had been if she had done what he did to her, he would have felt better about himself.
He would have been more loving and sweet to her.
Okay.
Let me run something by you here, Jane.
You know me, I love stereotypical things.
Humor, like mother-in-law jokes and that kind of stuff.
They're old fashioned, they're not considered funny anymore.
They're considered offensive.
Such as you know what real conflict is is seeing your brand new Cadillac go over the cliff, but your mother-in-law's in it.
Yeah.
Um that that that's an offensive joke today.
Back in the old days, uh, that was perfectly fine to laugh at.
There was a phrase back in the old days before the feminist movement.
It went like that.
Hold on, I shouldn't.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ask that.
But I think this this might you may not have heard this.
Hope you have.
The man who thinks.
And by the way, you you you tell this to somebody today and you say you admire this, you will be hated.
The man who thinks he married someone.
I mean the I'm trying to get the exact wordage of this.
The man who thinks he made some the man who thinks he is smarter than his wife knows not how smart she really is.
Now you know what that means, right?
I do.
Well, that's just what you said that the man is happier when the wife subordinates, yes, honey, respects him.
He's the man, he's the big tough protector.
He's the provider, he's the great, he's always right.
When the woman is deferential, you said if if if she had been deferential, he would have felt better about himself.
Their marriage would have been fine and dandy, and she would have been okay with it.
Because he would have been in turn been more loving, which is what she really hungry for.
Oh, is what what but does that always work?
Not always, but mostly.
Mostly.
So yours are you saying, or to dominating mean women does not work.
Jane, j men being nicer to nominate Of course it doesn't work.
I know it's not news, though, but it seems to be Well, you no, no, you bet you it it's a tenant of the feminist movement today.
I know.
But I have people in my office that are miserable because of that tenant.
That's what they were trying to get at here.
In there that they just went at it the other way around.
Yeah, but they they missed the other half of the study, which really would have been much more revealing.
And I think it it does apply to the party because I'm I know a ton of Republican women now, and none of them have respect for the Republican Party because it stands for nothing.
The Democratic guys and leaders are mean, right?
They're going for it.
They have cajones.
And the Republican leaders are getting wimpy.
No, please.
Please don't tell me that.
Sorry, but it's true.
Is that how people oh Jesus?
Because we want to be able to respect our.
You mean are you are you telling me that Harry Reed is seen as a real man?
I'm telling you that he has those people's back because he will go for he's vicious.
I'm not saying it's becoming, but I'm saying the Democrats know that the Democrat the Democrat people in the Democratic Party know that those democratic leaders are going to take it to the next level.
That they're gonna fight.
And the Republicans don't fight for us.
That's true.
I can't it's hard to respect that.
Exactly.
I mean, uh well, in a way, you're you're confirming the survey.
You're just you wanted to focus on it though for clinical purposes In a male-female relationship, but as you extrapolate this to the world of politics, you're you're acknowledging it that it's right.
Yeah.
Because the Republicans are the man in that study.
That's right.
I totally agree.
And they're wusses.
Yeah.
And they don't even come along.
Don't even seem like they respect themselves.
They don't, and that's not attractive.
It isn't.
It's not attractive to even afraid to say what they really believe.
That's right.
And the Democrats aren't.
Well, yes, they are.
Well, yeah, they don't tell you what.
What the Democrats do is constantly trash and demonize the Republicans.
The Democrats never are honest about what they're really going to do.
Right.
I agree that they're not honest, but they're willing to get dirty.
And frankly, that's what we need.
We need, you know, people who are willing to go for the fight.
She's talking.
Jane, I'm glad you called.
She's right on the money.
And we will be back.
Hi.
How are you?
Welcome back.
L. Rushbow.
Talent on lawn from God.
Mother-in-law joke.
Stereotypical humor.
Bob was having dinner at a restaurant with his mother-in-law when unprompted, she said, I've decided I want to be cremated.
He said, I'll go get the car.
Here's an observation for you, folks.
The left attacks Republicans daily.
The left attacks conservatives.
The left attacks black conservatives, female conservatives, the left attacks Republicans every day without fear.
Correct?
Can you think of a group the left never attacks?
Can you think of a group that the left actually bows down to and acquiesces to?
I can.
The Muslim community, the Muslim community is stridently anti-gay.
The left never attacks them.
The left never attacks the Muslim community for their brutality in the Middle East toward gays.
The left never says a word about Islam and women, Islam and gays, not a word.
Why is that, do you think?
They make up things about Republicans and gays.
They make up things about Republicans and women.
They make up things about Republicans and minorities.
And they do it every day.
And they get away with it because the Republicans are afraid to stand up and challenge it and refute it.
But they don't say a word about Islam and gays.
Islam and women.
Wonder why that is.
Folks, might you be able to come up with an answer to that question?
Hmm.
Why are the Democrats, why do the Democrats fear criticizing Islam?
They don't fear criticizing the Catholic Church.
They don't fear criticizing any denomination or aspect of Christianity.
They don't fear criticizing certain Jewish organizations or people at all.
They don't fear that.
They've made careers trying to destroy the Catholic Church, but they keep their distance from Islam.
Why do you think?
Do you see Islam going out of its way to moderate?
To conform, to be dragged, kicking and screaming into the real world as the estimable Piers Morgan describes the Catholic Church as doing.
You don't, do you?
And do you hear the left or the Democrat Party ripping into them for it ever?
No, you don't.
Why are they afraid of them?
Do you see Islam compromising, expressing An interest in bipartisanship.
Going along.
You see Islam willing to change what it believes in order to get along with Democrats.
Do you see that?
You don't, do you?
Wonder why.
Here's Dave in Boston as we head back to the phones.
Dave, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Say, Rush, I I think I have the uh the reason why that's why that study um that experiment failed, and uh and I'm pretty sure I have the solution to what would make it work.
When you say, honey, I think you're right.
Um you're uh you you're you're giving too much away.
Uh what's gonna happen is sooner or later, consciously or subconsciously, she's gonna catch on to it, the fact that you're just a peasing her.
It's like ever try the words yes dear all the time with your wife?
Does that work?
Wait a minute.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Are you married?
Yes.
Do you think if you wanted to conduct this experiment, let's say you want to just for one week, you were gonna always agree with your wife.
You're never gonna disagree, you're not gonna tell her she's wrong.
Do you think you could do it in a way that she didn't think she was being appeased?
Well, that's that's the solution I have.
I've been doing it for 20 years.
It's simple.
All you do is say, honey, maybe you're right.
And they never catch on.
Well, you've just given it up now.
Well, now they're all gonna now they're all gonna know.
Everybody will be happy now, because uh when you say maybe you're right, you're not conceding that she's right or that you're wrong.
Look, the the survey I'm sure that the man in this survey was not instructed to say all the time, honey, you're right.
Oh, yes, I totally agree with you, sweetheart.
Oh, absolutely.
What?
Take out the trash again?
Sure.
What else do?
I don't think it happened that way.
I think he was simply instructed not to argue, not to stand up for what he believed.
It wasn't that that whatever she said, he said, you are so smart.
Oh, you're so of course she'd see through that.
What she was, according to the research, what what put her off was that it it it shnew that the guy wasn't who he really was.
It wasn't that he was pandering to her.
At the end of it all, when you strip away all the uh uh the ancillaries, you get down to the salient, the point was that the guy agreeing with her so that there would never be any arguments, the guy agreeing with her and doing what she wanted, so there wouldn't be any confrontation, so there wouldn't be any friction.
That the test was will that make you happy?
Anybody.
Will it make the man happy or will it make the woman happy?
In this case, they were studying will it make the man happy.
And it didn't.
And what they were shocked to learn was it was the wife who was the most unhappy.
They were studying the man.
Happiness for the man.
What they found is that the woman became miserable.
And it's not a mystery why.
I mean, this is human nature.
Boy chases girl till she catches him.
That's another one of these.
You you you you say that to a feminist, and they'll want to string you up.
That that is a that is a line uh lyric from a song that was popularized by the vogues.
And I think what's the title of the song?
Woman.
I don't know.
But the opening line was a boy chases a girl till she catches him.
What you you run around and you you say that to a feminist today, and you'll be accused of being a stereotypical uh sexist, uh predator, uh, and and all kind of you know, I didn't talk about it enough, but I got this piece here.
Camille Paglia had this piece in Time Magazine this week.
It's a man's world, it's always been a man's world, it's always going to be a man's world.
And the piece is extraordinary because Camille Paglia, a well-known she's a feminist.
She's she's a she's a lesbian, she's a sexologist, sex expert, she's an art critic.
She really uh a brilliant woman in her own right.
And she goes back and she chronicles this aspects of American history, things that women could not have done.
That women could not have built.
And she's there's no criticism involved here.
It's just an acknowledgement of fact, an acknowledgement of the differences, an acknowledgement of who did do, and who wielded power, who had power, and how it was used.
And uh men liberated women with appliances, like when Walter Williams is for his wife's birthday, got her a vacuum cleaner or some such thing.
Or a washing machine to make her life easier.
You say that to a feminist, blow her gask.
But uh look it, you know what, there are some time-honored, irrefutable truths about human beings, men and women, and the feminist movement uh and and all of liberalism has spent the last 40 years trying to change them.
They have taken what is basic human nature and they've found out that they're not happy with what nature bequeathed to them, or so they have embarked on this crusade to reverse and change basic human nature.
They can't.
You can artificially turn guys into wusses for a while, and you can see to it that no men want to go to college anymore, and you can see to it that there are more single mothers and single women parents and so forth, and you can you can make all that happen, but there's nothing good in it.
The feminism has been a wrecking ball in uh in most of American culture.
Because feminism, in order to accomplish its aims, has necessarily set out to blame men for everything that women are unhappy about.
And then the biggest mistake the modern feminists made was trying to be like men.
Dress like men, have careers like men, get stressed out like men.
That's that's how modern feminism defined itself is changing the way the world works, acquiring power and so forth.
They wanted to join all male clubs, they wanted to get in and all this action they thought they were being denied, and they did not establish a separate identity for women.
They simply tried to become men.
It's one of the biggest mistakes of the modern feminist movement, if you uh if you ask me.
And we're we're living with the results of this, and it's not good.
It's not good for anybody.
And Camille Paglia tackles it held on.
I mean, it's amazing.
It's an amazing piece.
I wish I could have time to actually read the whole thing, but I don't, and I can't, obviously.
But it is in Time Magazine.
I just saw the clock.
I have to take another brief, obscene profit break.
And we'll do that and be right back.
Don't go away.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limboy, and you, because you are you were all part of it.
Here's uh here's Nirvana in Northern Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Rice.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Very good.
Thank you very much for calling.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me.
Um I called about a couple months ago, and I was uh talking about like the modern-day feminist and my mom being part of the old-time feminism where I was basically a lie.
And you had asked me at some point in there what just a second now, because I'm vaguely remembering this.
You did you you were talking your your mother you said was part of the old-time feminism.
Um did you say your mother realizes now it was a lie, or she's still committed to it?
She's committed to it.
I'm I'm the one that's saying basically it is a lie.
Yeah, okay.
That's right.
That's right.
She was uh, she said, Well, when are you gonna get a real job when I chose to stay home with my kids?
Oh, that's right.
I I'll ne oh I do remember this now like it was yesterday.
You got better memory than I do.
Imagine that.
A man a parent.
When are you getting any real time staying home with the kids?
Wow.
That's just see, that's the kind of anger and and controlling mechanisms that these feminists engage in.
It's just really off-putting.
Yes, sir.
Well, um, but I had called you had asked me a question about what was, if I vaguely remember what was so off-putting, what was the issue that women had with you.
And I it has I've been thinking on that, and basically it's you are painted in a very sexist way.
Um, you know, your opinions, you know, anti whatever, you know, anti-women, anti-women having control of their own reproductions, yada yada yada.
And or I just found that that wasn't the case.
I mean, so often you you know, people are like, oh, you fit this and this.
And when I actually listened to you, I didn't find that was the case at all.
I found that you were very opinionated, um, and you weren't afraid to say things, which kind of goes back to that survey thing.
I don't want a guy that is weaker than me.
He better be as as at least as strong as me.
But um, you know, it wasn't I didn't find you a sexist at all.
I just found that you were straight up to the point.
If you don't like it, well, you know, you weren't very politically correct.
That's their own problem.
Well, I remember you, I do.
You're from Jacksonville, right?
Yes, sir.
Yep, yeah.
And you she she called back in August.
And and I I rem at at the time, after after talking to you, I said what we needed a new category, stay at home feminist.
Because that described you.
Because you're firm in your beliefs, you're not a wallflower, you're not wimpish, you're not frightened or anything, but you are very proud to be mother.
You want to stay at home and you don't have any regrets and you don't feel less a woman for it.
And it's like we coined a new category for you, stay-at-home feminist.
And I did, I did ask you know, w why you thought twenty-five-year-old women were afraid of me.
Um, because it was how the media portrays you.
Yeah.
Uh and it's and they do that purposefully because if they can discredit you, then they could discredit anybody that opposes, you know, their viewpoint.
So and it's you are so right.
See, that is the key.
The demonization of anybody they consider a threat.
They can't beat me in the arena of ideas, Nirvana.
They can't beat us.
So what they do is try to discredit people they think are leaders in uh in opinion leaders.
So they'll go after Sarah Palin, they'll go after Clarence Thomas.
They'll go after whoever.
I mean, they'll tell you who they're frightened of by who they try to destroy.
And I want to bring that in.
It's like, oh, well, you're just a mom, you don't know anything.
Well, I was also a CV.
I said I did construction, you know, I d I had a career, but I that was what was so important about the you know, the feminist movement now is that we have the choice.
I chose to get out of the military and raise my kids because I thought they were more important.
Right.
So it's a choice, choices one thing.
This is a this so ra choice is what I always thought the feminist movement was about.
But boy, if you chose the wrong thing, uh they would drum you out of it just like you were a conservative.
Pretty much.
And then once again, it's like, oh, well, you don't know what you're talking about, you're dumb, or you're just ignorant or you're a bigot, or whatever.
Nirvana, how how old are your crumb crunchers?
Uh ten, six, four, and two.
Well, I'd say what I'm gonna do.
Um I want you to, I gotta go because of the time here, but I want to put you on hold.
Snerdley will be back to get your address in Northern Florida, because I want to send you some some books uh for the kids, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and a couple of audio.
Well, just I'll send you one.
Yeah, just send you one copy of the audio version for the youngsters who can't read it yet.
And um uh that's at least I could do.
I'm gonna be I'd be thrilled to do it.
So don't hang up.
And who's don't hang up.
No, no, don't you do it?
50s group.
Can't think of it.
Anyway, don't hang up.
Snurdy will be there.
Get your name FedEx and well, yeah, FedEx.
Give us a FedEx address.
We'll get stuff out to you as quickly as we can.
By the way, where do I go to complain about the Yahoo weather app?
I guess I could complain about it here.
I love the app.
It's one of the best, if you're like me, you got twenty five different weather apps on your phone and your iPad.
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